Joby Warrick and William McCants at the Hoover Book Soiree
Joby Warrick, author of Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, and William McCants, author of The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State, join Benjamin Wittes in the ...
23 Okt 201550min
The Lawfare Podcast: Surveillance Reform After Snowden
Last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted Ben, along with Laura Donohue of Georgetown Law, former NSA Director General Michael Hayden, and Robin Simcox of the Henry Jackson ...
16 Okt 20151h 31min
The Lawfare Podcast: Helen Mohrmann on Cybersecurity in an Insecure Environment
As listeners may know, while we often talk about cybersecurity on the show, Brookings itself has been subject to a number of cyber-attacks in recent years. Those attacks have ranged from infiltration...
9 Okt 201549min
The Lawfare Podcast: How Anwar al Awlaki Become Objective Troy
This week, New York Times national security reporter Scott Shane came on the Lawfare Podcast to provide an overview of his new book on the life and death of radical Islamic cleric Anwar al Awlaki, Obj...
2 Okt 201550min
The Lawfare Podcast: Gregory Johnsen Answers "What is a Houthi?"
On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Gregory Johnsen outlines the state-of-play currently in Yemen. Johnsen, who is a writer-at-large for Buzzfeed News, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, and an...
25 Sep 201540min
The Lawfare Podcast: Richard Gross on the Law of Hybrid Conflict
Last week, Ben attended a symposium at the Pentagon on the rise of so-called “hybrid conflicts,” whereprofessionals from around the national security establishment attempted to define the idea as well...
18 Sep 201530min
The Lawfare Podcast: A Band-Aid for a Bomber: Is Medical Assistance to Terrorists Protected Under IHL?
On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Ben sits down with Professor Gabriella Blum, professor at Harvard Law School, and Dustin Lewis, a senior researcher at Harvard Law Schools’ Program on International Law...
11 Sep 201529min
Encore Performance: Bone-Crushing Zombie Action
It's a special encore performance of our panel discussion from last year on the legal architecture of the zombie apocalypse: Foreign Policy's Shane Harris hosts a panel--incuding Bobby Chesney, Benjam...
29 Aug 201538min
